Is the exact location relevant? The kind of locationThe exact time? No

Is this story unique to you No, or could it happen to someone else? Yes

Were you with others at the time? NoRelevant? No

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Are you outside I was inside, but that's not relevant and able to see a geographic or structural This formation that is going up while you are in fact ambulating down, ie a valley? Guess you can put it that. Explore

Were you in a structure that descends on its own, ie an elevator or escalator? Or were you the actual actor of your own descent? Did you have an appt or other set event that was occuring later in the day that you needed to take the same kind of device to go back up?

Were you in a structure that descends on its own, ie an elevator or escalator? NoOr were you the actual actor of your own descent? YesDid you have an appt or other set event that was occuring later in the day that you needed to take the same kind of device to go back up? Irr

because...you wanted to? because someone dared you to? because you'd needed to walk backwards for something you did at the gym? (I remember reading something about a guy who ran the miles on his car backwards by driving it backwards, so he could sell it with less mileage O.o but it was something when I was a kid, not recent, so anyway...) was something counting how far you went and you wanted to see if you could run it backwards by going backwards???

because...you wanted to? because someone dared you to? because you'd needed to walk backwards for something you did at the gym? (I remember reading something about a guy who ran the miles on his car backwards by driving it backwards, so he could sell it with less mileage O.o but it was something when I was a kid, not recent, so anyway...) Lol!was something counting how far you went and you wanted to see if you could run it backwards by going backwards??? None of that, sorry.

The other day, I overexterted myself in the gym, resulting in rather bad muscle soreness in the front of both my thighs the following day. Since I was barely able to walk down any stairs the normal way because of that, I walked down the stairs backwards.

Kudos to Shez for solving, cheezburgur for Kaylee kitteh, and thanks to everyone else for puzzling :-)